homestead
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1. homestead - Noun
2. homestead - Verb
Meaning
The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
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A common scheme was for an individual, acting as a front for a large cattle operation, to file for a homestead surrounding a water source, under the pretense that the land was to be used as a farm.
Adam reads his brothers the story of "The Sobbin' Women" (taken from Plutarch 's story of the Sabine Women ), one of the books Milly brought to the homestead.
After many years of farming on the homestead, he retired to an apartment in Graceville.
As the ancestral drink of Boyacá’s pre-Hispanic peoples, this maize-based brew has not evolved much over centuries, an acquired taste for many that is somewhat refreshing in this rustic homestead.
Central to the traditional homestead is the cattle byre, a circular area enclosed by large logs interspaced with branches.
As Claire (Caitriona Balfe) expands her medical practice, Jamie (Sam Heughan) must wrestle with promises he’s made to the Crown in order to keep his American land where his family has made a homestead.